Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1814

The British - Dutch Treaty of 1814 ( also London Convention ) was a treaty between Great Britain and the United Netherlands to clarify Dutch possessions in the Americas, Africa and Asia.

History

The British - Dutch Treaty of 1814 was signed on August 13 by Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh for the UK and Hendrik Fagel for the Netherlands.

Conditions

The colonial possession of the Netherlands was restored by the treaty, as he had been on January 1, 1803 before the Napoleonic Wars prompted the British to removal of this property. The exceptions were the land at the Cape of Good Hope and South American possessions Demerara, Essequibo and Berbice, but where the Netherlands received back trading rights. In addition, the UK was the island of Banca in the Malay Archipelago against the village of Cochin and their dependent territories on the coast of Malabar in India from. The Dutch in turn dispensed with the district Berna Gore near Calcutta and received compensations an annual payment by the British. Also, the agreement contained a statement that no Dutch citizens longer allowed to be involved in the slave trade.

Britain went further on the matter, Sweden to pay the sum of one million pounds sterling in order to obtain the right to the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe. Further, both parties came a fact that each side would spend two million pounds for the expansion of the fortifications in the Netherlands.

Effects

The treaty of 1814 left open a number of questions that could only be clarified with the follow-on contract from 1824.